Most unfair and cheap enemies ever?

[-Adracko-]

The ENTIRE Battletoads NES game....I cant even beat it using a rom and save states...

 

[Korihor]

Wizpig in Diddy Kong Racing, no one has ever beat him without hacking of some sort.

 

[Yellowbeard]

How about the snipers in the rainy village in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault? They're practically all hidden behind trees and the only way to find them is to get shot...through the leaves. I hate that game.

 

[FurinKazanNZ]

Manhacks. Particularly during the 'Anticitizen One' chapter where you get a fucking hundred of the things non-stop coming after you.

Exactly what I was gonna say, but I only found it a problem on Hard, when they take ages to kill and do a ton of damage.
Of course, on hard I found them a problem on like the third chapter of HL 2 where there's 3 or 4 manhacks and a couple of metrocops. Damn.

 

[IMakeIce]

Goombas

Slimy little bastards, sneaking up from you from the left side of the screen because they bumped into the pipe just behind you that you forgot about.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

The snipers in Half-life 2, on the train track level, comes to mind. Pretty much for the same reasons you brought up.

But all you had to do was hide under the train, and you could get away without getting hit once. That part was easy!

 

[Wereduck]

I could nominate a whole bunch of enemies here...

But I'm going to go with two from X-COM: UFO Defense (UFO: Enemy Unknown, if you prefer).

First off, Sectoid Leaders and Commanders. If any aliens see one of your troops, the sectoid leader/commander can see all your agents. Forever. It will then make several attempts per turn to mind control, berserk or panic them. This ends hilariously poorly.

Second, anything with a blaster bomb launcher. A blaster bomb is a nuke the size of a US football, which follows a path of up to nine waypoints, including into areas the enemy can't see (again, obvious issues combined with the seeing-everything ability of sectoid leaders and commanders), with pinpoint accuracy. Then everything explodes forever. Short of a miracle, no agent or tank can survive a blaster bomb. In fact, the surrounding landscape often doesn't survive - it'll be shattered, smoking and very much on fire.

Third? Ethereals. Imagine sectoids commanders. Done? Good. Now increase its firing accuracy, speed and reactions by a whole lot, make it almost as tough as a tank (often tougher, in my experience) and capable of flight. Also, they're all psychic, and far better at it than any sectoid can possibly hope to be.


Ethereal and Sectoid commanders are almost always equipped with blaster bomb launchers. When this happens? Weep and pray for death.

Oh, they weren't that bad. The blaster bombs were a serious pain but as long as you knew about psi powers from interrogating aliens and had started culling your troops for psi-ability the ethereals weren't much tougher than any other alien.

I'd say chrysalids were the the most overpowered hostile threat in X-COM. They had tons of TU's so they could run up on your squad & armor-be-damned, they'd instantly disable 2-3 of your men before it became your turn. And then once you'd brought them down the men they'd attacked would transform into more chrysalids. If you were engaged by a chrysalid and didn't have adequate backup with heavy plasma guns you were meat.

Now in UFO Aftermath, those guys were cheap & unfair. For the whole final third of that game I don't think I ever saw an enemy before they'd fired off at least 2 guided missiles at my squad.
I particularly liked that all of the advanced weaponry you'd capture in the endgame either had no ammunition or had to be 'deployed' before firing (and was therefore useless against the alien ambushes).

 

[Asmundr]

I don't think I need to explain myself.

Bull's eye. I hate those damn things.
For me it has to be any enemy with Nightslash in Pokemon. I'm a Ghost-type specialist and it has become annoying to battle trainers.

"'right. Just gonna bring out my duskull and use will-o-wisp and curse and the fights over...wait...Fu-"

Only to be one shotted by nightslash...Super Effective Critical hit all the time...

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

*snip*

GAH! I HATE THOSE FUCKING THINGS!!!

Also, these fuckers:

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And these...

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[Naheal]

Star Ocean 3.

Freya.

That is all.

 

[theSovietConnection]

Phase Ticks from Singularity... swarming, health-bar-raping little bastards...

Oh God, I hated those little fuckers. I put them up beside any enemy AI with x-ray vision.

 

[Folksoul]

Behemoth Kings from FFXIII

WHY DO THEY GET THEIR HEALTH BACK JUST BY STANDING UP?!
OH GREAT NOW THEY CAST MAGIC!

 

[Arafiro]

The bloody Kurzen Medicine Men in north east Stranglethorn Vale.
Gits.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

Super Mutant Masters/Brutes with Miniguns/missle launchers.
Being a Melee and Energy weapon character, going to DC, and finding yourself against one... Pure FUUUUU

Master/Brutes are easily killed. Unfair are the Super Mutant OVERLORDS who pop up after you've installed some DLC's who run around with gatling lasers and Tri-laser rifles and crap like that. Especially when you've started the game over and are at a pretty low level at first and encounter one of the bastards :X

(Pro tip: use your meanest gun and shoot like crazy in VATS at their arms. Chances are that you actually hurt them enough to make them drop their weapon, and then you run up and steal it before they can recover it. That way you can grind their health down when they are basically unarmed. Yay!)

 

[Roofstone]

Everybody and everything during non-sneaky stuff in The Saboteur...

I regard Navi as a personal nemesis though, so she scores highest.(jk. Not really, but still)

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

Creepers....sneaky SOB...

Fallout New Vegas and the Dmg Threshold on Deathclaws...

Also lets add dmg conditions to those...Burns Sleeps Poisons Paralyze

QTE enemies....

Ninja Cougars of RDR

Humans....MP games and such...

 

[Devi Darkside]

Does Azazael from Tekken 6 count? Because that ************ will block all your damn attacks and still kick your ass a 1000 times until you beat him.

But i have learned his pattern now...and now it is I that deliver the ass whopping.

Hmm and the boss from Tekken 5 were my picks...Fucking cheap ass bastards.

 

[JasonBurnout16]

Phase Ticks from Singularity... swarming, health-bar-raping little bastards...

Really? The pause area effect really screws these guys over. And if that doesnt work you can always just use the pause area effect as a pathway to get through these guys.

 

[Dfskelleton]

I don't think I need to explain myself.

Seth was the easiest final boss in the series's history, so yes, you do need to explain yourself.

My vote would be for AI opponents in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. Whiff a move. I dare you. I double-dare you, ************.

The Mortal Kombat thing I can agree with, but easiest? I breezed through M. Bison as VEGA. And I don't fancy the teleport behind you, use unblockable move that takes away 1/3 of your health and repeat strategy of Seth's.

 

[Koroviev]

The boss in Tekken 6 is really annoying. Also, that terminator fetus thing in Mass Effect 2.